Matthais Habich Filmography

Chaotic Ana

Actors: Manuela Vellés, Charlotte Rampling, Bebe Rebolledo, Asier Newman, Nicolas Cazalé

Synopsis: A naïve young artist living with her father in an Ibiza cave sets out to explore life on her own terms in Sex and Lucia director Julio Medem's sensual tale of personal transformation. Ana (Manuela Vellés) is a free-spirited nymph who has only known the natural world. An ethereal, nubile woman who Read More

Downfall

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Juliane Köhler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes

Synopsis: The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are seen through the eyes of a young woman in his employ in this historical drama from Germany. Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) was 22 years old when, in the fall of 1942, she was hired to be personal secretary to Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz). Read More

Call of the Toad

Actors: Matthais Habich, Krystyna Janda

Nowhere in Africa

Actors: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthais Habich, Sidede Onyulo, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Regine Zimmermann

Synopsis: A family on the run for their lives finds themselves in a beautiful but utterly unfamiliar world in this drama based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig. Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the Read More

Enemy at the Gates

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris

Synopsis: A turning point in 20th century war history is the focus of this fact-based account of the 1942-1943 battle of Stalingrad, in which the Germans were finally defeated by Russian influence -- one of the bloodiest battles in World War II history. The film stars Jude Law as Vassili, a marksman from Read More

Beyond Silence

Synopsis: A young woman struggles with her unusual relationship with her mother and father in this drama from Germany. Laura (Tatjana Trieb) is a bright young girl whose parents, Martin (Howie Seago) and Kai (Emmanuelle Laborit), are deaf and dumb. Living in a small town in Germany, where International Sign Read More

In Namen der Unschuld

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Matthais Habich, Udo Samel, Dugrun Gabriel, Katharina Zapatka

Synopsis: In the former East Germany, Anna (Barbara Sukowa) suffers a nervous breakdown and enters a sanitarium. Her 23-year-old daughter Maria (Katharina Zapatka) visits but fails to get her to come home. Missing her train, Maria accepts a ride from businessman Robert Kunze (Udo Samel), who rapes and kills Read More

Ein Richter in Angst

Synopsis: Dr. Crusius is a dour judge who manages to alienate an entire legal community with his arrogance and ever-smoldering anger. Abel is a freewheeling, hotshot young attorney who uses unconventional methods to win his cases. This German courtroom drama chronicles what happens when the two are thrown Read More

I Sfagi Tou Kokora

Actors: Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Set upon the island of Cyprus, a pair of good friends who run a prominent nightclub/prostitution ring find their good life about to come unraveled when they receive a damning film that reveals them having disturbingly kinky sex. These acts happened years ago when both friends were migrant workers Read More

Das 10. Jar

Synopsis: A miserable couple attempts to live together in miserable surroundings in this heavy Austrian drama. Both lovers are middle-aged and have been involved ten years. After all that time, Marie and Max have finally decided to shack up. Marie's mother is unhappy that they do not marry. The couple Read More

Noir Comme le Souvenir

Actors: Jane Birkin, Sabine Azéma, Benoit Regent, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris Read More

Nero

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Chiara Caselli, Hugo Pratt

Synopsis: Bear witness to the rise of the most corrupt and ruthless ruler ever to preside over the Roman Empire as filmmaker Paul Marcus tells the tale of Nero's unlikely ascent to the throne, and his historical fall at the hands of his own vengeful kingdom. After murdering his sister's husband on grounds Read More

La Demoiselle Sauvage

Synopsis: In this drama from Canada, a nurse from Quebec is traumatized by a violent incident and becomes lost in the mountains. In time, a Swiss engineer working in the alps discovers her; he gives her a place to stay and slowly gains her trust as she regains her health. However, he soon discovers she's Read More

Duo

Farendj

Actors: Tim Roth, Marie Matheron, Matthais Habich, Joe Sheridan

Synopsis: Europeans (and Americans) have a horror of their citizens "going native" in non-Western counties. It is considered to be a form of insanity, demonstrating a lack of character in those who do it. In this story, Anton (Tim Roth), an English writer, visits Ethiopia with his girlfriend Julie (Marie Matheron Read More

Noch Ein Wunsch

Actors: Matthais Habich, Johanna Lier

Synopsis: Martin (Matthias Habich) has a settled and materially successful life. During his birthday party, he begins to have qualms about the whole thing, and escapes a life that has suddenly become claustrophobic by going to Paris. There, he has a quick one-night stand with a young girl, an encounter Read More

Crash

Welcome to Germany

Actors: Tony Curtis, Matthais Habich, Katharina Thalbach, Alexandra Stewart, Michael Morris

Synopsis: An American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the German's lied. The psychological process undergone Read More

À Corps Perdu

Actors: Matthais Habich, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Michel Voita, Jean-François Pichette, Kim Yaroshevskaya

Synopsis: Pierre (Mattias Habich) is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Sarah (Johanne-Marie Tremblay) and David (Michel Voita) have moved out, leaving the bisexual Pierre wondering why. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed Read More

Les Morfalous

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacques Villeret, Michel Constantin, Michel Creton, Francois Perrot, Matthais Habich

Synopsis: Considered more as a vehicle to display Jean-Paul Belmondo than as an independent, wartime action story, Les Morfalous rides the crest of the French actor's popularity and delivers a tale that highlights his persona. Belmondo is a member of the French Foreign Legion sent with others to Tunisia in Read More

Glut

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katharina Thalbach, Matthais Habich, Sigfrit Steiner

Synopsis: Even in war, the life of a rich family is different, according to this fictional story about Francois Korb (Armin Müller-Stahl) an arms manufacturer who sold both to the Germans and the Allied forces. Korb's home life is less than ideal, since his wife is having an affair with his brother, and his Read More

Imperativ

Actors: Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Sigfrit Steiner, Matthais Habich, Leslie Caron

Synopsis: Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically Read More

Die Reinheit Des Herzens

Actors: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Matthais Habich, Heinrich Giskes, Marie Colbin, Herb Andress

Synopsis: A strange and some might say warped, erotic drama from director Robert Van Ackeren, Die Reinheit des Herzens is a nearly abstract look at the changes in one woman's inner self. Lisa (Elisabeth Trissenaar) is married to a down-and-out writer who one day forces her into a liaison with a book thief. Read More

Ursula

Angst

Synopsis: All alone in a big mansion, the baby-sitter hears one of the phones ringing. When she answers it, an abusive and obscene caller begins threatening her. She calls the police on another line. Meanwhile, the caller breaks into the house and seems to be preparing to rape her. However, she and the man Read More

Taugenichts

Actors: Jacques Breuer, Eva-Maria Meineke, Mareike Carriere, Matthais Habich

Synopsis: The classic German Romantic novel of Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, written in 1826, provides the basis for this film. The screenplay was written before the East German film based on the same book was filmed, but it took four more years for the director to come up Read More

Der Madchenkrieg

Actors: Adelheid Arndt, Antonia Reininghaus, Matthais Habich, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: This movie, based on a novel by Manfred Bieler, chronicles the complex romantic and daily lives of three daughters of a German merchant living in Prague in 1936. The oldest daughter is Christine, who falls in love with and marries a porcelain dealer. The next younger daughter Sophie has an affair Read More

Le Point De Mire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jacques Dutronc, Matthais Habich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her Read More

Le Coup De Grace

Actors: Margarethe von Trotta, Matthais Habich, Rudiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: 1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by Volker Schlondorff. The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Read More

Fluchtgefahr

Synopsis: Wolfran Berger plays a rootless drifter who gets involved in petty theft and does prison time for it. There, he discovers a new career as he is indoctrinated by his fellow inmates. When he is released, he takes up more serious crimes. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

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